Colours to start with for painting miniatures

[Vertabriles]

Warum machst du deine Videos nicht einfach auf deutsch^^, trotzdem sehr gute videos finde ich, verstehe dein englisch manchmal ein bisschen schlecht, aber kein kein problem :)

[GirlPainting]

@Vertabriles ganz einfach, weil ich von fast 10000 abonenten nur ca 300 deutsche dabei habe.

[CaptCamping]

I dont want you to feel bad, but is that your original voice? Also have you tried Vallejo and P3? I use Vallejo paints and washes and they are good. Now I will try P3.

[Mark10787]

I see all of your videos and it will be very useful thanks a lott. coninue painting i love how you do

[Tjupzzz]

Hahahaah, ''you can almost Ooops'' xD i love that

[gipas21]

thank you very much for your video. It is the most important

[veelckoo]

This is great as my friend asked me what paints to buy at the begining - so i will just show him this video.

[Herpkid56]

3:06 There must have been a Khorne beserker in there >:D

[DBAViking]

Man how old is that Regal Blue!?!?!? I remember those from the mid 90s!

[MoreKogz]

Thank you for posting this video. Its helpful.

[SubaniKubani]

What do you say at the start of this video lol? ''Hi chewies?'' Because it sounds weird.

[GirlPainting]

@SubaniKubani hi tubies

[SubaniKubani]

@GirlPainting oh right :D anyways nice painting keep up the good work.

[SubaniKubani]

@GirlPainting Oh ok thanks, keep up your good videos :)

[skinnypotsmoker]

hey gp can you paint sisters of battle am going to collect them so ned hellp painting them battle skanks soooo do it for me im special ewery one says

[venusboys3]

Nice video, as always.

One other color I might also include, depending on what's up to be painted, is a magenta... I find it really hard to mix up from other basic colors... but I think it's useful for mixing up nice purples/pinks.

I'd maybe leave out the green since it's fairly easy to get to with blue & yellow...

[venusboys3]

Nice video, as always.

One other color I might also include, depending on what's up to be painted, is a magenta... I find it really hard to mix up from other basic colors... but I think it's useful for mixing up nice purples/pinks.

I'd maybe leave out the green since it's fairly easy to get to with blue & yellow.

[MoreKogz]

Thank you for the recommendations. I will look up there equivalents on my chart and order them.

[VividAdventures2010]

Great vid! I wish I had seen this one when I was starting out. Very good advice here. As far as other paint suppliers than GW, don't worry about them. Any advice on colors to start with easily translates to any other brand with a little common sense and research. This is a great starter video for people new to the hobby! :)

[Cabilis66]

It all depends on the painters preference. I myself prefer and will probably ALWAYS use GW colors because I know them and how they cover and dry. Vallejo is very hard to find in the states where I live but I do have a few and I am not convinced that they are superior to GW. Try using some of the foundation line of paints from GW and see how the excel at basecoating and even mixing . You too will be convinced I think...

[UnityCZ]

GW paints aren't essentialy bad. I've got most of the basic colors from GW paints, thing is they dry faaaaaast. A wet palette is a must with GW branch, unlike Vallejo whinch tends to dry slower, at least if you're painting single miniature. Anyway, very helpful video.

[loismari]

Do you know that Vallejo has a kind of colours that are an imitation of gw with the same colours but slight diferent names? the name of these paints is game colour and game ink. Some of them are good, I recomend them, in the shop I buy are 2 euros instead of 3 euros. but some of them are not good, for example snakebite leather is better in gw than in vallejo game color

[Slagnfren]

Wohey, das Video hilft mir wirklich besonders, da ich bis jetzt eig immer aus der Luft gegriffen bzw von der Verpackung abgelesen hab, welche Farben ich jetzt brauch und mir von daher kein einheitliches Bild der Armee gelang. Aber mit dieser Auswahl wird mir das wohl leichter fallen.

[Nusphigore]

This is a really helpful video Alexandra ;)

You know this kind of videos are really helpful when you are starting to paint.

Also the tutorials you made on basic lights and colors (you know, the art ones) were eally helpful too.

What happened to those ones anyway?

[georgeyeh]

Thank you Alexandra, for always bringing us the most useful tutorials and information!

[vodevick]

Excellent as usual but I would like to disagree about one thing: I think new painters should use more ready-mixed colours while the more experienced painters can do with fewer colours. When you are learning to paint it´s hard to know how paints will mix but with experience you learn. (I really liked your vid about Ittens colour wheel. I have one beside my paint-station now!)

[Plueschbabycd]

Hallo wonder bit that have Darkangels Green Dwarf Flesh and in your list. Can not mix it self? :) By the way would only buy colour need for miniature.

[skinnypotsmoker]

hey gp could you paint eldars :D

[thanson77]

Wow. That regal blue takes me back to the 90s.

[HighlanderGames98]

Hi, I understand why you say get the other Citadel Red and Yellow, because Citadel Red and Yellow are TERRIBLE. Why don't you tell people that Valejo Red and Yellow are 10 times better ? Anyway, I suppose I've just done that ;o))

Keep up the great work ! Thanks

[GirlPainting]

@HighlanderGames98 i have both colours here and realy i don´t see any difference then to the gw ones.

[OverlordFxR]

@GirlPainting price?

[deardaddyboy]

@GirlPainting Why you dont talk about Vallejo colours??they better and have 17 ml and cost more cheap

[GirlPainting]

@deardaddyboy because i don´t think that they are better colours. and for me it dos not matter if the pot is 12ml or 17, because evan the 12 ml one holds for several years, as you can see at some of my old paint pots. next thing is that the gw paints are much easyer to buy here in germany.

[deardaddyboy]

@GirlPainting Hmmm strange,many people use Vallejo and paints really better than citadel colous,anyway you painting is amaizing:))

[tomsmith100]

@deardaddyboy Vallejo are much better and do not dry out due to the screw cap. The Model Air range is fantastic for painting with a brush aswell as the airbrushing. The pigmentation is far higher requiring less coats. The metallics are 100 x's better than GW which are glitter paints in my opinion.

[deardaddyboy]

@tomsmith100 Thank you.i think so too.Vallejo much better and have 17 ml.

[tomsmith100]

@deardaddyboy 17ml and better quality paint compared to 12ml paint. Easy choice really.

[deardaddyboy]

@tomsmith100 and Vallejo cost 2.39 for bottle on Maelstorm site:)+Vallejo have more 100 colours

[tomsmith100]

@deardaddyboy I buy mine from Wayland Games they cost £1.75. I would check them out. Subscribe to me and add me as a friend dude. I'm going to get more into making videos regarding wargamming.

[deardaddyboy]

@tomsmith100 in Maelstorm website bottle of Vallejo cost 2.39$ and they send parcels with FREEshipping all over the world

[jasenrhodes]

@tomsmith100 rofl did you even read the comments ? she said they are easier to get hold of, she didnt say the 12ml were better .. lol DOH!!!

[MrScottySnipes]

@deardaddyboy you have horrible grammer

[paulJTthompson]

@MrScottySnipes and you can't spell.

[udo77]

Question: In the W40k painting starter kit there's an "undercoat black". Is this the same as chaos black. And is "Skull white" used as an undercoat, because I need like 3 layers to be opaque.

Thanks, and great show!

[GirlPainting]

@udo77 i don´t know for shure, but i guess the "undercoat black" is the foundation colour equivalent. as undercoat you take a spray primer. never prime with acrylic paints, because it has not the abilety of holding the paint at the model like the primer

[maamets]

@GirlPainting ACK!. Now I know what I have done wrong all the time. It is amazing how often tutorials forget to mention that a separate special color is used for priming. And if I am not mistaken then GW does not even offer a true primer in it's starter painting set which is kind of weird.

GirlPainting, could you give a short explanation or even make a vid tutorial about how to correctly prime your miniatures?

[Titamiva]

@GirlPainting Ich bin mir recht sicher, dass Undercoat Black eine Pinselgrundierung ist.

[UnityCZ]

@udo77 The Undercoat Black should be really for undercoating. I can feel it, when i touch it when it's dry, it is really smooth and fine. I wonder why GW is not selling this paint separately. But for army painting, spray primers are way better since spraying takes less time than undercoating one at time, also more comfortable:)

[asjarra]

Thanks Alexandra! Great to know :)

[OrcPainterNerd]

information like this is priceless to the beginner painter. so many times they get bombarded by GW staff, with coercing them to buying so much it scares them off.

not all GW are like that but the one by me is real bad

[terrainoob]

Great stuff! Thanks for putting this up!

[Catattafish]

Very good starting point Alexandra, no doubt many newbies will appreciate this !

Cat/

[Toxicrafa]

Great  usefull info. Thank you. (^_^)b

[loismari]

Sorry, I have a question: babad black is black ink? I have the old black ink and i don't know if it´s like babad black. also I have brown ink and flesh wash but I think that nowadays don't exist, because there is only devlan mud, isn't it. Could you help me? thanks :D

[GirlPainting]

@loismari badab black is a black wash with slightly different propertys than the old black ink. it is "softer" i would call it.

[loismari]

@GirlPainting Ok, thanks very much :D. What is better for you?

[JijonJonte]

@loismari Yes they are almost the same, they just put funny names to their new inks but they only have one black and one red etc. the diference is...the new ones are more like dissolved buter. they are easier to use. (sorry for my english)

[loismari]

@JijonJonte muchas gracias, me imagino que será como la nueva tinta marrón devlan mud, que parece que tiene menos pigmento que las tintas antiguas, a veces viene bien para ke la tinta no tape las zonas más sobresalientes de la miniatura, diluyendo la vieja en agua se podrá lograr un buen resultado.

[loismari]

@JijonJonte (In english) Thanks, I think that it must be similar to new brown ink devlan mud, which seems to have less pigment. It's sometimes good because these new inks don't cover the exterior parts of the miniature.Mixing old inks with water I think that I'll reach a good result

[TheSeasonman1]

Thanks great explaination of colours required .

[loismari]

nice video, but I would add scorched brown or a brown ink. :D

[granander]

Nice! I think it could be even better if you would have shown examples of the mixed colors. Mixing is something that people starting out don't think about and seems to have a hard time grasping.

[RaageQuit]

its a bit late for me to use this now but its a great video nonetheless. Thanks for putting this out, and im sure it will help alot of people. Keep it up =)